Brands & Films

Reflections on product placement in movies, music and on TV

Month: March, 2011

Beats by Dre in Consumer Society

This is the first guest post on Brands & Films. It was written by Alexander Appelhans, a student at the Queen Mary University of London who wrote an essay as a part of his Marketing course.
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Beats by Dr. Dre (also Beats by Dre) is a business venture between Monster Cable, a company specialising in high [...]

Brands & Films on Facebook and Twitter

Special announcement for readers and visitors of this blog: since last Saturday Brands&Films has its own Facebook page and Twitter profile.

On the Facebook page you will find links to new blog posts, so if you want to be notified when there’s a new post, join Brands&Films on Facebook.
Additionally you will find short films, links to [...]

Finally: a Single Man eyeglasses by Tom Ford

One of the most beautiful movies of 2009 was definitely Tom Ford’s debut A Single Man. The most impressive aspect of A Single Man is its cinematic beauty. Everything from the design of the sets, clothes and actors to the colors Ford used was beautiful. And Colin Firth as the lead actor was impressive too.
A [...]

Product placement on TV – not a bad thing

Did you know that until 28th February product placement wasn’t allowed in the UK? Well, product placement in films and international programmes (e.g. American sitcoms…) was allowed, because it wasn’t made for the UK market. But now also programmes made for UK audiences can contain product placement. They have to comply with Ofcom’s (Independent regulator [...]

Tigerblood – Diddy’s cocktail made from Ciroc vodka

Last week Diddy (formerly known as Puff Daddy and P Diddy) twitted:
»Dont drink the peepee! Drink TIGERBLOOD!! Redberry Ciroc+Cranberry Juice«
If you don’t know what it’s all about, you probably missed the biggest celebrity story of the last couple of months. American actor Charlie Sheen was fired from his role on Two and a [...]